Celebrate 2024: Why Women, Why Now, event is tonight!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 16, 2024
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Green Bay, WI – Allyship. Community building. During this highly engaging event, participants from across the state will connect and learn from amazing women, and leave feeling energized and supported to lead, with the tools to help you get there! The event is hosted by The Schreiber Institute for Women’s Leadership. The evening’s schedule is as follows:
Celebrate 2024: Why Women. Why Now.
Thursday, May 16, 2024
The Weidner, UW-Green Bay
- 4 p.m. Networking
- 5 p.m. Panel: The A-list panel includes Alida Al-Saadi, Senior Partner, Korn Ferry; Maria M. Lara, President & Co-Founder, LPA of N.E.W.; Polly Olson, Chief of Police, City of Appleton; Mang Xiong, Executive Director, WUCMAAA
- 6 p.m. Keynote: Jeffery Tobias Halter will take the stage to share strategy surrounding the workplace gender equity gap that exists everywhere, including Northeast Wisconsin.
- 7 p.m. Social
How do you make a vibrant blend of networking, education and fun even better? You invite the Art-Hop Collective — a collaboration between artists Andrew Linskens ’07, Gregory Frederic and DjRgs (DJ Richard Grieco Suave) — to the party! During and after the Celebrate 2024 reception, we’re amping things up with an infusion of art and music. Art and music inspire each other. Together they can inspire and move a community.
About the Schreiber Institute for Women’s Leadership
The Institute was created in 2021, recognizing the region’s growing need for a pipeline of women leaders and the distinct challenges faced by professional women in the workplace. The Institute’s mission is to advance women both personally and professionally at all stages of their career by educating, inspiring and providing networking opportunities to create a strong and equitable workforce. Learn more at http:/www.uwgb.edu/womens-leadership/
About UW-Green Bay
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is a school of resilient problem solvers who dare to reach higher with the power of education that ignites growth and answers the biggest challenges. Serving 10,300 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students as well as 67,500 continuing education learners annually, UW-Green Bay offers 200 academic degrees, programs, and certificates. With four campus locations in Northeast Wisconsin, the University’s access mission welcomes all students who want to learn, from every corner of the world. Championing bold thinking since opening its doors in 1965, it is a university on the rise — Wisconsin’s fastest growing UW. For more information, visit www.uwgb.edu.
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